Great hydroponics growers are not born overnight. They happen over time, as growers slowly become more and more accustomed to all of the techniques and equipment that goes into the creation of huge yields in a grow room.

One of the best tools that beginning hydroponic growers can use is 2 part nutrients. These are a special combination of nutrients and growth enhancing ingredients that are specially designed to improve your yield and growth during the flowering or fruiting stages of development. While this is extremely powerful in hydroponic growing, you should not go into this kind of use of 2 part nutrients blind.

Here are cases in which a hydroponic grower should be interested in using 2 part nutrients in their hydroponic growing:

When You Want to Learn About Hydroponics – There is sometimes a natural tendency to want to get the absolute best and more powerful ingredients as soon as you start growing hydroponically, and this is something that 2 part nutrients can provide. Using 2 part nutrients as a kind of learning tool can help you understand the basics even on your very first hydroponic garden. Any given hydroponics operation requires thorough knowledge of hydroponics nutrients, including the power of two part nutrients.

When You Want to Get Real Value for Your Money – 2 part nutrients represent a larger investment than your typical nutrient solution, but they pack a punch that make them well worth it. 2 part nutrients combine a lot of different hydroponics ingredients that are very rare and very difficult to make. Chelated nutrients must be created under very special conditions, and other specialized hydroponic nutrients, while being extremely effective, can be somewhat difficult to find. As a result, the price of 2 part nutrients simply reflect how powerful an effect they will have on your garden.

When all other Growing Conditions are Optimized – You should use the basics of hydroponic growing as your foundation, and then move on to more powerful growing techniques and methods, even. While 2 part nutrients can do incredible things for a hydroponic garden, the overall effect will be diminished if you do not make certain the fundamentals are in place first. For example, even the best 2 part nutrients in the world will not do a whole lot if your grow lights are not sufficiently powerful to stimulate optimal photosynthesis or if your grow room is too cold to grow well. When you have these kinds of factors more or less balanced, then you can take advantage of 2 part nutrients and other powerful plant food as a beginner.

When You are Prepared for the Yields – An oft overlooked feature of hydroponics growing is storage. Whether you plan on keeping your harvest, giving it away to family and friends, or selling it on the open market, you are going to have to have sufficient means to store your crop. Many people are caught off guard by just how big the yields can get when using 2 part nutrients. You can correct this by just paying attention to how big your yield will be as you approach hydroponics harvest time. If it looks like you have insufficient storage materials, you can correct this by ordering more.

One main reason why people choose hydroponics is because they are able to precisely control what nutrients their plants receive. While soil gardens more or less have a basic level of nutrients provided to them through the growing season, hydroponics gardeners can give their plants different nutrients according to whatever their garden happens to need.

Unfortunately, this advantage can become a liability if you do not follow the proper nutrient feeding schedule. While what precisely is the best kind of nutrient feeding schedule for you can vary.

Here are some commonly accepted guidelines that help all growers:

Nitrogen For Growth – The vegetative stage is obviously crucial to having a successful harvest season. The larger that you can make your plants, the more budding and fruiting sites will appear, which increases the probability that you will have a highly successful growth season.

For this reason, you need to make certain that your nutrient solution during this time has high levels of Nitrogen. It is helpful to use three part nutrients during your nutrient feeding, so that you can easily mix a nutrient solution that best suits your needs.

P and K for Fruiting and Flowering – While nitrogen is the most important macronutrient for vegetative growth, phosphorus and potassium are the most important to get those large, heavy flowers and dense fruits. This is why you should make certain to change to a more PK dense nutrient solution during this stage.

One of the biggest mistakes that you can make, however, is using a PK 13/14 nutrient solution. While this was once popular during hydroponics, this ratio is based on obsolete science. Modern research proves that you have much better off using a PK 9/18, with a one to two ratio of these nutrients.

Don’t Forget the Lights – A common beginner mistake to assume that since light helps your plants produce the carbohydrates that are essential for growth, more light is always better. In truth, the only time your plants can benefit from twenty-four-hour lighting is when they are seedlings or cuttings. As they enter the vegetative stage, it is actually much better to switch to eighteen hours of light a day. As you change your nutrient feeding schedule for the flowering or fruiting stage, you should change the photoperiod to twelve hours a day. If you leave your grow lights on for more than this, you will just be wasting a lot of money, and not be doing your plants any good.

Flush Out your Plants – The final step in your nutrient feeding schedule should be to totally remove all of the salts an other compounds that can actually harm the taste and aroma of your harvest. While hydroponic nutrients can do wonders for growth, they can severely harm taste.

Fortunately, plant flushing is a fairly simple procedure. You simply need to fill your reservoir with pH-balanced water two to three days before you begin harvesting. You should also include a plant flushing supplement. These contain compounds that can thoroughly clean out your plants and vastly improve taste.

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